A video showing shocking racial slurs filmed on a Sydney train this month and uploaded to YouTube has had over 395,000 views prompting more than 1,300 comments. Unfortunately it is not an isolated incident in Australia.

English comedian and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart regular, John Oliver, has described Australia as one of the most “comfortably racist” countries he had ever visited, claiming that prejudice against Lebanese-Australians was proof that racism in Australia was “undeniably specific”.

The woman at the centre of the “stupid, fat Australian” case has won an appeal against her 2012 conviction after a north-west England court determined that it would not be in the public interest to uphold the court’s original verdict.

The ABC has confirmed it was the victim of a cyber attack after the website of one of its television programs was targeted following coverage of the Australian visit of controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders.